I agree with your analysis that moving in the opposite direction is not enough, especially when it's well-heeled urbanites looking down their noses at the plebeians who still think chop suey is Chinese food. Not every North American has the resources to access "real" Chinese food.
Also, they end up getting it wrong anyway, the real trick is that there is no such thing as "Chinese food." There is Mandarin cuisine (from Beijing), Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan, Tibetan, Shanghainese, Chinese Buddhist, Chinese Islamic, etc etc etc. A cook from Beijing would consider dan dan noodles (which are Sichuanese) to be very far removed from his own culinary tradition.
On a lighter note, potstickers totally exist in China, they're literally called "pan stick", and they're awesome.
PS - I followed your comment here from debunkingwhite. I hope you don't mind that I added you, your journal is very interesting.
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Also, they end up getting it wrong anyway, the real trick is that there is no such thing as "Chinese food." There is Mandarin cuisine (from Beijing), Cantonese cuisine, Sichuan, Tibetan, Shanghainese, Chinese Buddhist, Chinese Islamic, etc etc etc. A cook from Beijing would consider dan dan noodles (which are Sichuanese) to be very far removed from his own culinary tradition.
On a lighter note, potstickers totally exist in China, they're literally called "pan stick", and they're awesome.
PS - I followed your comment here from debunkingwhite. I hope you don't mind that I added you, your journal is very interesting.